Dr. Matthew Walker

That's the difference between knowledge, which is remembering the facts, versus wisdom, which is knowing what it all means when you put them together. That is the purview of REM sleep. REM sleep takes those new memories and it acts almost like group therapy for memories.

That's the difference between knowledge, which is remembering the facts, versus wisdom, which is knowing what it all means when you put them together. That is the purview of REM sleep. REM sleep takes those new memories and it acts almost like group therapy for memories.

That's the difference between knowledge, which is remembering the facts, versus wisdom, which is knowing what it all means when you put them together. That is the purview of REM sleep. REM sleep takes those new memories and it acts almost like group therapy for memories.

Everyone gets a name badge and it forces you to now speak to the people not at the front of the room that you think you've got the most obvious connection with. You've already done that when you're awake, seeking out the obvious connections. Dream sleep forces you to go and speak to the people at the back of the room that you think you've got no association with whatsoever.

Everyone gets a name badge and it forces you to now speak to the people not at the front of the room that you think you've got the most obvious connection with. You've already done that when you're awake, seeking out the obvious connections. Dream sleep forces you to go and speak to the people at the back of the room that you think you've got no association with whatsoever.

Everyone gets a name badge and it forces you to now speak to the people not at the front of the room that you think you've got the most obvious connection with. You've already done that when you're awake, seeking out the obvious connections. Dream sleep forces you to go and speak to the people at the back of the room that you think you've got no association with whatsoever.

It turns out that you do. It's a distant connection, but it's a powerful one nonetheless. Because when you start to fuse things together that shouldn't normally go together, but when they do, cause marked advance is in evolutionary fitness. It sounds like the biological basis of creativity. That's what dream sleep is doing.

It turns out that you do. It's a distant connection, but it's a powerful one nonetheless. Because when you start to fuse things together that shouldn't normally go together, but when they do, cause marked advance is in evolutionary fitness. It sounds like the biological basis of creativity. That's what dream sleep is doing.

It turns out that you do. It's a distant connection, but it's a powerful one nonetheless. Because when you start to fuse things together that shouldn't normally go together, but when they do, cause marked advance is in evolutionary fitness. It sounds like the biological basis of creativity. That's what dream sleep is doing.

It's almost as though you wake up with a revised mind wide web of associations. And it's during dream sleep and the act of dreaming itself that we, it's almost like memory pinball. You take what you've learned, bang, and you shoot it up into the cortex and you start bouncing it around and you test out what the connections are.

It's almost as though you wake up with a revised mind wide web of associations. And it's during dream sleep and the act of dreaming itself that we, it's almost like memory pinball. You take what you've learned, bang, and you shoot it up into the cortex and you start bouncing it around and you test out what the connections are.

It's almost as though you wake up with a revised mind wide web of associations. And it's during dream sleep and the act of dreaming itself that we, it's almost like memory pinball. You take what you've learned, bang, and you shoot it up into the cortex and you start bouncing it around and you test out what the connections are.

But the way the algorithm works during dreaming is different than wakefulness. Wakefulness is the Google search gone right. You type in, you know, modern wisdom into the Google search and the first page all about you. Fantastic. You go to page 20 and it's about a field hockey game in Utah. And you think, but if you read about it, all of a sudden you think, oh, that's clever.

But the way the algorithm works during dreaming is different than wakefulness. Wakefulness is the Google search gone right. You type in, you know, modern wisdom into the Google search and the first page all about you. Fantastic. You go to page 20 and it's about a field hockey game in Utah. And you think, but if you read about it, all of a sudden you think, oh, that's clever.

But the way the algorithm works during dreaming is different than wakefulness. Wakefulness is the Google search gone right. You type in, you know, modern wisdom into the Google search and the first page all about you. Fantastic. You go to page 20 and it's about a field hockey game in Utah. And you think, but if you read about it, all of a sudden you think, oh, that's clever.

I can see why that's associated.

I can see why that's associated.

I can see why that's associated.

Now, you can have a thousand of those every night that are completely useless, but all you need is one of those to make that advanced leap. That's the novel difference between 2001 and Space Odyssey, where they're banging bones around and then all of a sudden one of them realizes... Christ, this thing is actually a weapon.

Now, you can have a thousand of those every night that are completely useless, but all you need is one of those to make that advanced leap. That's the novel difference between 2001 and Space Odyssey, where they're banging bones around and then all of a sudden one of them realizes... Christ, this thing is actually a weapon.